[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1796]
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SA 368. Mr. COATS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO PROVIDING
STATES THE MEDICAID FLEXIBILITY THEY NEED
IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE REFORMS TO IMPROVE CARE
AND ENHANCE ACCESS FOR OUR NATION'S MOST
VULNERABLE.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to Medicaid that allows States the flexibility to
build off of successful State innovations to ensure our
Nation's most vulnerable Americans have improved access to
quality care while reducing taxpayer costs, by the amounts
provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided
that such legislation would not increase the deficit over
either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through
2025.
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